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Join Curator of North American Ethnology Peter Whiteley as he leads a video tour of the Museum's Pacific Northwest Coast collections, which includes a giant Kwakwa̱ka̱'wakw whale mask, pictured above left.

A key unknown in lunar science is to what extent the Moon is a melted, radially layered planet like Earth or a primordial unmelted relic of the early solar system, like many asteroids. A new era of lunar exploration is underway, offering major new insights into this decades-old question.

In this podcast from the April 8 "Frontiers" lecture series, planetary scientist Ben Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reviews current understanding of the lunar interior and shares new results from spacecraft observations and studies of Apollo samples.

Hosted by Tom Brokaw, a new television documentary, Treasures of New York: American Museum of Natural History, gives viewers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the American Museum of Natural History. The one-hour program first airs on Thursday, May 2, at 8 pm on WLIW21 and Sunday, May 5, at 7 pm on WNET.